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2021 has been a huge year for me, so I wanted to take some time to pen down my thoughts regarding the past year.
I also want to share some of the plans I have in mind for my blog … Read more
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Why You Should Start Investing ASAP
If you’re into personal finance, you’ve probably heard and read a lot about investing.
Perhaps you know that you should start investing, but for one reason or another, you haven’t taken that first step.
There are certainly many reasons to … Read more
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5 Investing Takeaways From 2021
As 2021 draws to a close, I reflected on my investing journey over the past year to look for my lessons learnt.
While taking note of the mistakes that I’ve made and the realisations I’ve come to after putting more … Read more
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How Do Accumulating ETFs Work?
If you’re familiar with ETFs, you probably know that they can differ in the way they handle dividends depending on whether they’re Distributing (Dist) or Accumulating (Acc) ETFs.
I wrote a post going through some of the differences between … Read more
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An emergency fund is one of the most important pillars of personal finance.
It should be something that everyone squares away even before thinking about investing.
When I realised I didn’t have any posts about emergency funds on my blog, … Read more
I’ve talked a lot about Interactive Brokers (IBKR) on my blog and how they’re the best broker for do-it-yourself (DIY) investing in Singapore.
However, the biggest downside to it is that it’s not intuitive to navigate as a platform, especially … Read more
Disclaimer: All data in this post is accurate as of 15/11/21.
In my beginner’s guide to ETFs, I talked about how there are often multiple ETFs that track a single index.
For example, the S&P 500 index has many … Read more